Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Janet M. of Tampa, FL worked as a nurse for many years, and was well aware of the difficulties oxygen patients had to deal with from their equipment. When she was prescribed oxygen she knew right away that she did not want to use oxygen tanks. After she was prescribed, Janet tells us, "a local oxygen provider that works with my doctor's office brought tanks over to my home and I rejected them!" The provider wasn't able to get her a portable oxygen concentrator, so she went out and found Open-Aire.

That was over four years ago. Janet has been a long time customer and is using the OxyGo by Applied Home Healthcare Equipment. "It's by far the most convenient," says Janet. She takes it wherever she goes, including on her summer trips to New England where she visits her children in Massachusetts and Vermont. Open-Aire looks forward to being Janet's preferred oxygen provider for four more years, and many more after that.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Frances J. of Parma, MI lost part of a lung back in
2004 during a surgery for her cancer. Since then she had been using oxygen off
and on, until last year when she was prescribed full-time use. At that point
she had enough experience using tanks to know she did not want to use them
full-time. “I used to go out a lot and do
some traveling. I couldn’t do that any longer with oxygen tanks. With a tank, I
can only be out for a couple hours at a time.”

A life with oxygen tanks wasn’t going to work for Frances.
Fortunately she learned about Open-Aire’s portable oxygen concentrators, and
with some help from her doctors and Open-Aire case managers it wasn’t long
before she was able to have one of her own. Frances’ doctors are very impressed
with her portable oxygen concentrator. Her primary physician recommended Open-Aire
to another of his patients who wants to continue playing golf. Her
pulmonologist has started to recommend portable concentrators to some of his
other patients as well.

Even her previous oxygen provider seems impressed. Once Frances was comfortable
with her portable oxygen concentrator, she called her previous provider to pick
up her old equipment. He insisted that it wouldn’t work, and asked if he could
see it. Frances
happily showed it to him. Frances
says, “While he was looking at it I told
him I have up to 12 hours of use at a time with it. After that he said ‘okay I
give up’ and left with my old equipment.”